horrid flench continued, for many hours, to 

 iffae From the roafling body, and was extreme- 

 fy offenfive throughout the town, penetrating 

 fo firongly into the houfes to leeward, as to 

 make many perfons fick, and prevent them 

 from taking food during the remainder of the 

 day. 



The conduit of this negro furnifhes a 

 linking example of the powers of the human 

 mind in fubduing our bodily fufferings, and 

 might feem, even, to corroborate the doftrine 

 which maintains that all pain is ideal. 



Another of the chiefs, or captains, who 

 was taken, is ftill in confinement at the fort, 

 under fentence of death, His execution has 

 been delayed in the hope of learning, from 

 him, the fituation of the yet remaining en- 

 campment ; but, hitherto, to no purpofe ; and 

 from his prefent conduit, it may be expe&ed 

 that he will die as relentlefs and inflexible as 

 his comrade Amfterdam. 



